someone that’s doesn’t treat his bipolar disorder
certainly has all the earmarks of someone riding their mania straight at a fiery crash into the mountain
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
maybe he'll make Kanye Chief Product Officer
― akm, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
interesting
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
re the yang tweet
https://t.co/zUkuY3rsNq pic.twitter.com/JaTJo2CzyE— Jesse (@RequiemArm) November 7, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
Oh no, they suspended @danielradcliffe's Twitter account! Wasn't it obvious he was doing a PARODY???— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 7, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
He's such a dummy. By going full goblin and imposing such a strict my way or the highway binary, he's pretty much whittling down the number of people that would pay to associate with him and in turn prop up his ego/clout. He is indeed going to end up in a the same sort of parallel universe as Trump, surrounded by yes men, Scott Baio and Three Doors Down.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
hatchi matchi
Bullied Loner Plans Office Shooting https://t.co/vi1zjXxjB3 pic.twitter.com/uLVy73blc1— The Onion (@TheOnion) November 7, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
They should stick him in the middle with a big flag when the fabled "both sides" he loves so much start unloading on each other.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
WAIT! Don't go!
Tech insider Casey Newton tweeted Saturday that some Twitter employees are getting called back in after getting sacked Friday. Those who are being asked to return, according to Insider, were key to Twitter’s operations; it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is basically what you get if you take Steve Jobs and drain his genius for design, commitment to excellence and ability to bring out the best in people, even better than they themselves thought possible. What you're left with is a destructive, selfish narcissist promoting vaporware.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
just rebrand it Shitter already
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
I mean, it's already in the toilet.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
lol there are people suggesting that Elon should fire these people if they refuse to come back. THEY'RE ALREADY FIRED.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
xp
Hey, he has been fishing for additional revenue streams and Wacky Packages-style re-skins aren't as dumb as some of the ideas they've been throwing out.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
"it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place" yeah duh, because this appears to have been so massive no actual thought was put behind what they were doing.
― akm, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
RIFs are often poorly thought through/done without regard to operability even at my company, to the point where they literally laid off half of our project team prior to a live date, which basically made the entire project a big disaster. at a company like Twitter that's run by the equivalent of a gardener whose head was run over by a lawn mower, well...y'know.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
for SWEs it really does seem to have been lines of code in the last 30-60 days combined with tenure.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
that's the reporting, and at least in my former org it matches what actually happened.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
Amazing
Could use a community manager who has grown an amazing online message board, subreddit, or online forum… work from home, anywhere in the world, as long as you’ve done it before and you have a playbook I can learn from. Email Ja✧✧✧@calaca✧✧✧.c✧✧ explaining your experience— @jason (@Jason) November 8, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
haaaaa
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
nominate e.mily
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
Is Philip Greenspun still alive?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:08 (one year ago) link
invocation of greenspun is always my line for OG SHIT. i was as ignorant then as i am now and could never figure out the board's connection to this greenspun, like, is this on some usenet bullshit, what is this? mr. greenspun (didn't know there was one) should definitely end twitter, is what i'm getting to here
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
Philip Greenspun. Born September 28, 1963 (age 59)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
(post for my) green spun philster
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link
Having seen WeChat work in China, this scenario actually makes sense:
There you go. Musk’s plan for Twitter is to copy WeChat. https://t.co/wgcjUc2fOT— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) November 8, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
legendary greenspun hours: when his dog* had like peed on the server out in the garage that ilx and the all other boards** were housed on, and we had couple of days outage till it dried out or whatever
*(probably no longer with us RIP) **eg there were two Y2K boards on greenspun bcz there'd been a massive flameward schism over how to interpret the non-arrival of the Y2K end-times, also ask a drunk and iirc de subjectivisten 👋🏼
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
copy wechat (create x the everything app) except start by paying $4b for the legacy code base of a site for journalists to yell at each other
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
I feel like a problem with this model is Elon himself. Most people have gotten comfortable with online payment systems, but those are generally controlled by big faceless corporations. We may not like them, but like the banks, we have some level of trust in their institutional competence and stability. But to the degree that Elon is just making Twitter all about him, I think there might be some well-founded reluctance to give This Guy your credit card info and purchase history.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
if you use paypal* you already did!
*used paypal 20 years ago
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
It boggles the mind, but the need for these dudes to broadcast their assholism rather than quietly go about business as secret assholes or rumored assholes is incredible. It's like the all attention is good attention mentality of small children turned up to 11.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
people be wanting attention is how i break it down to an extent
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
the ones who can keep it quiet are the ones i fear more tbh (they're like the fraudsters who never get caught)
the internet tells me there are 3,311 billionaires btw (maybe there's a page somewhere with a number that clicks up or down)
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
results for billionaires vs results for "real billionaires"
― nashwan, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
Tesla dropping another 5% today is it? Down to a new 52 week low?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
Giant Tesla recall just announced — 40,000 cars with power steering issues, apparently.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
all tesla OSs will be upgraded to display twitter as their homepage, car self destructs unless you pay an extra $8 per month
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
What was Musk's role in PayPal? Was he instrumental in it development or is it more of a Tesla thing where he glommed on to someone else's stuff?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
the latter iirc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
shouldn't be a surprise but Elon was a notoriously poor developer - a lot of his ex-employees remarked that virtually all the code he wrote had to be rewritten
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but the *ideas* in that code, man, the *ideas*." He's a visionary, not a secretary.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Like, check out my code:
$htmrr----jheeeeeee*#&>>>exe:--SELF-DRIVING CARKooo>>>2112******AV-??/://EXE
Clean that up and you're practically minting money.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Tuesday, November 8, 2022 10:39 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbf this is pretty standard you build something that works and eventually if it catches on you hire people who are better than you and also have more time to do a good job
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Paying 44 billion to become a mid.
Incredible how small time he is. This is the world's richest person (for now) and he's got such severe poster's brain that he's doing this. https://t.co/iBWX0m4EBW— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
Mid range mod
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
Funnily enough LinkedIn might be the only old-ish social media that isn't on fire?
Why couldn’t he buy LinkedIn?— Prof Jo Barraket 💉💉💉💉💉 (@JBarraket) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn brain impervious to worms though
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
linkedin is perfect because it can't pretend to be anything other than a corporate shill site you only visit because you have to or because you're psychotic
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
I actually went on there for the first time after signing up like 15 years ago and looked around and, blech.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Lol so many bad takes earlier on this thread and people who were buying into his snake oil.
Happy to see how the tide has turned and everyone - except for tsla cult bagholders - can see the emperor has no clothes on.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link